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Dolores Huerta: Among poor people,...

Dolores Huerta: Among poor people,...

Among poor people, there's not any question about women being strong -- even stronger than men -- they work in the...

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Margaret Fuller: Genius will live...

Margaret Fuller: Genius will live...

Genius will live and thrive without training, but it does not the less reward the watering pot and the pruning...

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Charlotte Bunch: Our very strength...

Charlotte Bunch: Our very strength...

Our very strength as lesbians lies in the fact that we are outside of patriarchy; our existence challenges its...

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Katherine Anne Porter: Most people won't...

Katherine Anne Porter: Most people won't...

Most people won't realize that writing is a craft. You have to take your apprenticeship in it like anything...

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Anne Tyler: I'ts true that...

Anne Tyler: I'ts true that...

I'ts true that it [writing] is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of...

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Gayl Jones: I learned to...

Gayl Jones: I learned to...

I learned to write by listening to people talk. I still feel that the best of my writing comes from having heard...

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Anne Sophie Swetchine: In this world...

Anne Sophie Swetchine: In this world...

In this world of change, nothing which comes stays, and nothing which goes is lost.

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Nadine Gordimer: Responsibility is what...

Nadine Gordimer: Responsibility is what...

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity

Source: The Essential...

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Toni Morrison: Bit by bit...

Toni Morrison: Bit by bit...

Bit by bit . . . she had claimed herself. Freeing yourself was one thing; claiming ownership of that freed self was...

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Fay Weldon: Worry less about...

Fay Weldon: Worry less about...

Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about...

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Judith Krantz: It's that or...

Judith Krantz: It's that or...

It's that or get fat again, she told herself, as she . . . searched the windows for new merchandise. The thrill was in...

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Barbara Kingsolver: The very least...

Barbara Kingsolver: The very least...

The very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that...

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George Eliot: It is seldom...

George Eliot: It is seldom...

It is seldom that the miserable of the world can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are...

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Gertrude Stein: Nature is commonplace....

Gertrude Stein: Nature is commonplace....

Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting.

Source: In My Autobiography,...

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George Sand: Try to keep...

George Sand: Try to keep...

Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age, and to imagine right up to the brink of death that life...

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Sarah Orne Jewett: The road was...

Sarah Orne Jewett: The road was...

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

Source: The Country of the...

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Nancy Astor: Women have got...

Nancy Astor: Women have got...

Women have got to make the world safe for men since men have made it so darned unsafe for...

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Beatrix Potter: Thank goodness I...

Beatrix Potter: Thank goodness I...

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the...

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Margery Allingham: I am one...

Margery Allingham: I am one...

I am one of those people who are blessed, or cursed, with a nature which has to interfere. If I see a thing that needs...

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Margery Allingham: He did not...

Margery Allingham: He did not...

He did not arrive at this conclusion by the decent process of quiet, logical deduction, nor yet by the blinding flash...

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